AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly

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Summary

Provides read only access to view the dashboard in the Amazon EKS console. The dashboard aggregates information about multiple clusters and related resources using AWS Organizations.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly
Default version: v3
Created: 2025-06-19
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: eks, organizations

Control-plane actions (9)

By access level: 5 List, 4 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EKS	3 of 74	3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	eks:DescribeClusterVersions, eks:ListDashboardData, eks:ListDashboardResources
Organizations	6 of 63	5 List, 1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization, organizations:ListAccountsForParent, organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators, organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent, organizations:ListRoots

EKS: 3 actions

eks:DescribeClusterVersions (Read)
eks:ListDashboardData (Read)
eks:ListDashboardResources (Read)

Organizations: 6 actions

organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListAccountsForParent (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators (List)
organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent (List)
organizations:ListRoots (List)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: all-resources.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants only List and Read actions.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonEKSDashboardReadOnly",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "eks:ListDashboardData",
        "eks:ListDashboardResources",
        "eks:DescribeClusterVersions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonOrganizationsReadOnly",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonOrganizationsDelegatedAdmin",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "eks.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "amazoneksdashboardconsolereadonly" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly"),
);

Sources

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